Hey, this is John from the Bible Project. Today on the podcast, we're starting a new podcast

series on a really big topic in the Bible. We asked our supporters to vote on the next

biblical theme they'd like to see us make into a video and the winner was the Day of the

Lord. The Day of the Lord is a biblical theme that runs all through the story of the Bible.

The biblical authors use it to describe when and how God intervenes in human history to rescue

people from oppression. The biblical authors, they have a deep conviction that one true God

of Israel is the creator and he's the king of history and that history has a purpose and

a goal. So there's coming a moment where if God's a good creator of all, he will defeat

evil once and for all and rescue the innocent and indicate the righteous and bring about

a new creation. In this first episode, Tim and I are going to set the stage by talking

about the Kingdom of Babylon. The origin story of the Kingdom of Babylon is an important

part of the biblical narrative and it's something most of us miss. So what's the deal with

Babylon and the Day of the Lord? We'll discuss that today. Here we go.

So we are doing a new theme video. That was voted on. Yes. First time we got to do a vote

and everyone who was a supporter of the project voted and we got 2,500 votes and the winning

theme was Day of the Lord. People are interested in the world, the

apocalyptic scenarios. I suppose. Yeah, super interesting. And for many people, that's

what the Day of the Lord refers to. It's about the final day of judgment. Yeah, we're

all, every human stands before God and has a verdict rendered over their life and they

are assigned to one of two eternal destinies. I think that's the category that we have.

Yep. Yeah. And maybe all of the horrible things in history that lead up to that.

Well, I think what's actually what's interesting is when you use the phrase Day of the Lord,

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